Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in alphabetic letter P, entry group 5, entry pirates of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...xmlns:ptext="ptext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> For a long time merchants and ship-masters suffered from the depredations of pirates on the southern coasts of what are now the United States and in the West Indies. In 1718 King George I. ordered a naval force to suppress them. At the same time he issued a proclamation promising pardon to all pirates who should surrender themselves ...
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United States (United States) 100,886 16,340 0 0 0 user votes
United States (New Mexico, United States) 6 0 0 0 0 user votes

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